Local sports digest: Healthy Jared Goff eager to get started at Cal spring practice

Bay Area News Group

Posted:
03/30/2014 08:11:50 PM PDT

Updated:
03/30/2014 10:05:48 PM PDT

The shoulder injury Cal quarterback Jared Goff suffered against Stanford last season has healed, but coach Sonny Dykes plans to take a cautious approach when the team opens spring practice Monday.

"We've got to be careful not to put too much on him and blow his arm out early," Dykes said Sunday. "We're going to bring him along slowly ... give him the occasional day off."

Goff, who threw for a Cal season record 3,508 yards in 2013 during a 1-11 year, had surgery Nov. 27 to repair the shoulder that was separated on a hit by Stanford's Shayne Skov.

The quarterback said Sunday he's been throwing 100 percent for at least a month and that the shoulder feels great.

"I went through a throwing program as soon as I felt good enough to throw, which started a few months ago," Goff said.

With the arrival of spring ball, Goff, who will be a sophomore in the fall, said there is a buzz in the locker room.

"Everyone is really excited to move on from last year," he said.

Six of the team's 15 practices will be open, including Monday's, which starts at 3:30 p.m. The other open practices are Saturday (11:30 a.m.), April 9 (3:30 p.m.), April 12 (10 a.m.), April 18 (3:30 p.m.) and April 26 (11 a.m.).

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Stanford's Patrick Rodgers won The Goodwin at the par-70 Stanford Golf Course with a 14-under 196, including a closing 64. His lone bogey of the day came on the par-4 ninth. He called a one-stroke penalty on himself when the ball moved after he addressed his putt. The six-shot win brings him two shy of Tiger Woods' school-record 11 career titles. Stanford also won the team title by 20 shots with a 25-under 815 total. Saint Mary's was seventh at 852, and San Jose State was 18th at 891.

Brian Celsi was 3 for 5 with three RBIs, and the Cal baseball team (14-12, 3-3 Pac-12) won 8-7 to sweep Utah at Evans Diamond. Aaron Knapp snapped a 7-7 tie with an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh.

Stanford (10-11, 3-3 Pac-12) couldn't finish a series sweep of No. 11 Oregon, as the Ducks scored seven times in the second inning en route to a 9-2 win at Sunken Diamond. Starter Chris Viall allowed four runs on four hits in 1﻿1/3 innings to take the loss.

Kyle Cortopassi's RBI single in the ninth gave Santa Clara (11-17) a 7-6 win at Pacific. The Broncos had just five hits in the opener, a 7-0 loss.

San Jose State (8-21) gave up 20 hits in a 16-3 loss at Washington State. The Spartans led 3-0 after two innings.

The San Jose State softball team (19-14, 2-1) made school history with a 14-2 five-inning win and a 4-2 victory over visiting UNLV. The Spartans' 13 runs in the fourth inning of the opener and the Mountain West series victory were program firsts. The first game picked up in the top of the fourth tied 1-1. In the bottom of the fourth, SJSU had 12 hits, all singles. Nicole Schultz went 5 for 10 in the series.

Cal (19-11, 3-1 Pac-12) cruised to a 13-3 win at Oregon State. Cheyenne Cordes hit a three-run homer, and Danielle Henderson and Vanessa Alvarez each had four hits. The first two games of the series were rained out.